See, for example, the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in case No. 24/1986/122/171-173, dated 6 December 1988, in which the Court declared that: “Mr. Barberà, Mr. Messagué and Mr. Jabardo thus had to face a trial that was vitally important to them, in view of the seriousness of the charges against them and the sentences that might be passed, in a state which must have been one of lowered physical and mental resistance.
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